The Hut Keeper’s List – A Poem

If you’ve ever spent time as a hut keeper at a ski or hiking lodge, you have to read this great poem recently penned by Tyler Bradley.

Tyler Bradley is a hut keeper and tail guide at Valhalla Mountain Touring and other lodges in the Kootenays. He contacted us recently to say, “I was writing up my to-do list and discovered to my horror that I had written a poem.” He went on to say he preferred the sound of “hut keeper” versus custodian because it’s “more pastoral, less janitorial” and that he knows “rhyming couplets have the ring of Hallmark Cards, but I was going for ironic.” To illustrate Tyler’s great poem, we’re featuring the watercolour work of Lars Baggenstos. Enjoy! (Our favourite line is “Check the bulbs and cobweb gowns.”